New York Times: President Obama has cast himself as a reluctant interventionist in two of the nation’s major industries, Wall Street and Detroit. The federal aid, he says, is a financial bridge to a postcrisis future and the hand-holding will be temporary. Even so, the scale of the government investment and control – especially by the auto task force now vetting plans at Chrysler and General Motors – points to an approach that has been shunned by the United States more than other developed …